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According to ChainCatcher, AI security startup Corma announced the completion of a $60 million Series Seed funding round today, led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Khosla Ventures and Coatue. The company is developing an AI security system for enterprise teams to detect threats, respond to incidents, and manage security operations. Corma will use the new funding to build AI-powered defensive tools that match the speed and sophistication of AI-based attacks.

According to Jin10, international crude oil prices weakened overnight on August 13, with Brent crude retreating below the $85 per barrel mark during pre-market trading.

According to BlockBeats, Base ecosystem token BNKR fell 18% on Aug 13, dropping to a $25 million market cap based on HTX data. Bankr founder deployer announced today that token platform Pools.fun will launch an official protocol token, with 30% of protocol fees allocated to buybacks and burns. The platform also plans an airdrop and will implement a points system based on user trading volume and token deployment activity on Pools.fun.

According to BlockBeats, U.S. initial jobless claims for the week ending August 8 reached 1.09 million, surpassing expectations of 1.02 million and marking the highest level since the week of July 11. The prior week's figure was revised to 1 million claims.

Following the release of U.S. July PPI data, the dollar index rose to 99.97, while spot gold fell approximately $7 to $4,383.21 per ounce. The 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 4.675%, and Nasdaq-100 index futures hovered near flat.

According to Harmony's Aug. 11 statement, an unknown attacker exploited a network vulnerability and minted approximately 4 billion ONE tokens, equivalent to roughly 26% of the cryptocurrency's total supply. The project's team said it was working with cryptocurrency exchanges to identify, freeze, and block funds linked to the incident. Developers are also preparing a patch to address the vulnerability and evaluating whether the network could be restored to its pre-exploit state. The exploit trigg

According to Hong Kong Economic Journal (HKEJ), Hang Seng August futures traded at 25,344 points as of 8:25 PM on August 13, down 29 points or 0.11% with 2,269 contracts traded. The contract hit a low of 25,341 points and high of 25,404 points during the session. Hang Seng Index futures (HSI) currently at 8,422 points, down 12 points or 0.14% with 2,354 contracts traded.

Hong Kong equities showed mixed performance today amid concerns over potential Federal Reserve rate hikes and yen strength, which triggered unwinding of carry trades. U.S. July CPI data came in line with expectations, signaling moderate inflation. While AI chipmakers and stocks that beat earnings estimates performed strongly, technology stocks overall declined, weighed by concerns over capital expenditure pressures from companies like Tencent.

U.S. producer price index rose 4.7% year-over-year in July, below economist expectations of 4.9% and down from 5.5% in the prior month.

U.S. core producer price index rose 0.2% month-over-month in July, falling short of expectations of 0.3%, according to official data. The reading matched the prior month's 0.2% increase.

For the week ending Aug 1, U.S. continuing jobless claims came in at 1.777 million, below the expected 1.794 million and down from 1.801 million the previous week.

U.S. producer price index (PPI) for July rose 0% month-over-month, missing expectations of 0.20%. The prior month was revised to -0.1% from an initially reported -0.30%.

According to Jin10 Futures, as of 8:30 PM Beijing time on August 13, WTI crude oil futures fell 1.31%, while U.S. natural gas futures declined 0.46%.

U.S. core producer price inflation came in at 0.2% month-over-month in July, falling short of the 0.30% forecast. The prior month's reading was revised upward to 0.4% from the initially reported 0.2%.

According to U.S. Department of Labor data, the four-week average of initial jobless claims for the week ending August 8 stood at 199,000. The prior week's figure was revised upward from 198,750 to 199,000.

Richmond Federal Reserve President Beth M. Barkin, a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), is set to speak on the economic outlook within the next 10 minutes.

U.S. core producer price index rose 4.2% year-over-year in July, meeting market expectations and declining 0.5 percentage points from June's 4.7%.

According to Jin10, as of 8:30 PM Beijing time on August 13, New York gold futures declined 0.47%, silver futures fell 0.39%, and copper futures dropped 0.16%.

U.S. initial jobless claims reached 209,000 for the week ending Aug. 8, exceeding economists' forecast of 202,000. The prior week's figure was revised upward to 200,000 from the previously reported 199,000.

According to research presented at USENIX Security '26, researchers identified 65,340 high-risk addresses involved in abuse on Ethereum and BNB Chain, with associated native token losses of 126,982.94 ETH and 17,726.7 BNB, totaling over $574.8 million in damages. The study highlighted two newly described attack vectors directly responsible for approximately $15.7 million in losses (2.7% of total). The first exploits misused contract accounts and deterministic contract address utilization, while